News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Web3 is expensive P2P. Parent comment

Re:Web3 is expensive P2P by axg11 on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:30AM (#31397863)
I'm not sure I understand your question, genuinely. There are of course costs for the benefits that come with web3: protocols are slow to evolve, and infrastructure is less efficient when we require a distributed consensus. Anyone that thinks "Web 2" or centralized systems will disappear is silly, there will always be situations where the costs of web3 are greater than the benefits. On the other hand, it's equally silly to think that there are zero use cases where the benefits of web3 outweigh the costs. Both can and will coexist.

Static HTML pages still exist today.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Web3 is expensive P2P by enos_feedler on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:43AM (#31398128)
The difference is there are relatively fewer static html pages. There wont be relatively fewer web2 deployments vs web3. Itll be mostly web2
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Web3 is expensive P2P by axg11 on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:53AM (#31398287)
I agree - misguided attempts to make everything "web3" shouldn't take away from the huge amount of value that future web3 services can bring, even if they are vastly outnumbered by web2 services forever.
[ Parent | on HN ]